[Python-Dev] python 2 for building python 3 (original) (raw)

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 14:23:19 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Er, normally you don't need any Python installed to build Python (be it 3.x or 2.x).

Are you sure about this? I remember needing an existing Python to building Python 2.7 on a new python-less install of FreeBSD a couple of months ago. But maybe that was just an issue with timestamps on files. I'll see if I can reproduce.

Mark



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